The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China. Wherein all the particular provinces are accurately described: as also the dispositions, manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people. Together with the traffick and commodities of that countrey
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Type of record: Book
Title: The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China. Wherein all the particular provinces are accurately described: as also the dispositions, manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people. Together with the traffick and commodities of that countrey
Classmark: BC Lt q/SEM
Creator(s): Semedo, Alvaro (1585-1658)
Additional creator(s): Faria e Sousa, Manuel de (1590-1649) (Other); Martini, Martin (1614-1661) (Other)
Related people: Faria e Sousa, Manuel de; Martini, Martin
Publisher: printed by E. Tyler for Iohn Crook
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1655
Language: English
Size and medium: [10], 308, [2] p.; plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/278628
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000804979705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Original version published as: Relação da propagação da fé no reyno da China e outros adjacentes. Madrid, 1641. Manuel de Faria e Sousa revised and rearranged the original, republishing it as: Imperio de la China. Madrid : Iuan Sanchez, 1642. It was this version that was translated into English. Cf. Backer and Sommervogel, v. 7, col. 1114 (OCLC).
Illustrations: portraits, map, Chinese costumes.
Pages [250]-304 are translation of Martini's De bello tartarico historia, with special t.p.: Bellum tartaricum, or, The conquest of the great and most renowned empire of China by the invasion of the Tartars... written originally in Latine by Martin Martinius ... and now faithfully translated into English. London : Printed for John Crook, 1655 (OCLC).
Indexed in: Wing(2) S2490.
Additional description
The last leaf (Rr4) is blank and pasted down. Pp.249 and 252 are also blank. The folding map is torn and repaired. Pp.283-4 is torn
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